Avon's 1947 Eerie Comics #1 is considered the first Pre-Code Horror comic book, and the publisher eventually battled Ziff-Davis over their own Eerie Adventures.
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Best remembered as one of the early entrants in the American paperback market in the wake of Pocket Books' successful launch in 1939, the roots of Avon Publications trace an interesting path through the history of the cheap mass market collected and reprint edition format in America, with the company eventually branching out into comic[...]
Avon Publications had been a presence on America's newsstands for four years when they entered the comic book field in 1945 with Molly O'Day Super Sleuth #1. Molly O'Day was created by unknown creators working for the Harry A Chesler studio The release was cover-dated February 1945 and may have been put together simply to[...]
Stories of the American West held a strong fascination for the reading public in the 19th century, and that interest has endured to the present day. Avon Publications started their Wild Bill Hickok comic book title at a time of rising interest in such stories as the media landscape and comic book trends were changing. [...]
Primarily known as a paperback publisher, Avon Publications established a reputation for material that usually leaned into what has come to be called exploitation fiction material featuring provocative or shocking covers. This made Avon something of a natural fit for the late 1940s comic book industry Some of the company's painted comic book covers were[...]
Avon Publications' Joseph Myers had been in the business of publishing paperback editions of Leslie Charteris's highly successful The Saint book series for years when he wrote Charteris about the idea of a comic book featuring the character in 1944. While Myers, mindful of wartime paper regulations, pitched the title as a potential quarterly in[...]